It was hot at the Way with Words Festival in Britain yesterday. Hot enough to pay $100,000 CAN for a bottle of water?
No, but hot enough to steal. According to the BBC:
A thirsty thief is being blamed for downing a bottle of water, valued at £42,500, at a literary festival.
The “art” was two liters of water, taken from glacial runoff from the Antarctic, and was intended to highlight the issue of global warming, says the “artist” Wayne Hill.
This global warming thing is a serious issue, but seeing as this was a literary festival, perhaps the “thief” was an artist himself, and was trying to engage the “artist” in a bit of environmental irony.
BTW, the “value” of the artwork, is the “artist’s” estimate, based on a percentage of the damage of the entire western Antarctic ice sheet melting.
BBC Story
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